Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979

Todd Shepard is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France.

• INTRODUCTION / Sex Talk and the Post-Algerian History of FranceONE / The Far Right and the Reinvigoration of Sexual Orientalism in Post-Decolonization FranceTWO / May ’68, “Arab Perversion,” and Anti-Arab RacismTHREE / The Algerian Revolution and Arab Men in the Fight for Sexual RevolutionFOUR / Homosociality, “Human Contact,” and the Specter of the Arab Man in the Post-’68 French Gay WorldFIVE / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1945–1975: Algerian Pimps and the “Takeover” of the “Whores of France”SIX / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1962–1979: Prostitutes, Arab Clients, and “the Traffic in White Women”SEVEN / Power, Resistance, and Sodomy in Post-Algerian FranceEIGHT / Rape as Metaphor in the 1970sNINE / Rape as Act in the 1970sCONCLUSION / The Erotics of Algerian Difference, 1979/2016BibliographyIndex

“A timely history of violence, fear, and prejudice in France since 1962. The figure of the North African Arab, as Todd Shepard deftly shows, is still present in French culture, although what was arguably at first a conflict of nationalisms is nowadays articulated as a fight against terrorism and Muslim extremism. A complex and thorough picture emerges.”